DECATUR, Alabama - A Decatur teen who played football on the Decatur High School team is dead today after being shot overnight in what was apparently an accident, AL.com's news partner WHNT News 19 reporting.

Multiple sources including WHNT identified the teen as Kedrick Bowman Jr. and said he died after being shot in the head at his family's home at 3110 Cotton Place SW. WHNT reports that reliable sources are telling the station that the shooting was an accident.